“16/16” was composed by the mandolinist David Grisman. It belongs to the body of original instrumentals Grisman wrote for his quintet, the band that carried the jazz-tinged acoustic style he came to call “dawg music.”
A piece of new acoustic music with a swing-jazz streak, “16/16” takes its title from a time signature and is built for the interplay of mandolin, violin, and guitar. It is a composer’s tune — written to be played, improvised on, and stretched out — rather than a melody drawn from folk tradition.
Grisman led the David Grisman Quintet for decades, bringing bluegrass instruments into a jazz-flavored chamber style.
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